“THE AMBASSADOR’S WIFE is another terrific book from a terrific writer. In the genre of crime fiction set in Asia, Jake Needham is in a class of his own.”
—The Bangkok Post
The first body is discovered in Singapore, on a bed in an empty suite in the Marriott Hotel. The second in Bangkok, in a seedy apartment close to the American embassy.
Both women. Both Americans. Both beaten viciously and shot in the head. Both stripped naked and lewdly displayed.
The FBI says it’s terrorism, but the whispers on the street tell a different story. They say a serial killer is stalking American women in Asia.
Inspector Samuel Tay of Singapore CID is something of a reluctant policeman. He’s a little overweight, a little lonely, a little cranky, and he smokes way too much. Thinking back, he can’t even remember why he became a police detective in the first place. He talks about quitting all the time, but he hasn’t. Because the thing is, he’s very, very good at what he does.
When the first body turns up at the Singapore Marriott, Singapore CID assigns the case to Inspector Tay. It’s high profile, and he’s the best they have.
Then why is it, Tay soon begins to wonder, that nobody really seems to want him to find the killer? Not the FBI, not the American ambassador, not even his bosses at CID.
International politics takes over a murder case. And unless Sam Tay can do something about it, the truth is going to be the next victim.
